Wuthering Heights

Author: Emily Bront?
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Wuthering Heights is one of the most passionate and moving novels in the history of English literature. It tells the story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff (an orphan adopted by Mr. Earnshaw). Catherine falls deeply in love with Heathcliff, while her brother treats him as an enemy. Between his love for Catherine and the unbearable rage and humiliation he must endure, Heathcliff suffers greatly. Finally, unable to tolerate it any longer, he leaves Wuthering Heights on a stormy summer night and disappears for three years. During this time, Catherine has married another man, but her restless heart remains with the Heathcliff who is planning a frenzied act of revenge. The famous British writer Somerset Maugham included Wuthering Heights in his list of the world's ten best novels, writing, "I do not know any other novel in which the suffering of love, obsession, cruelty, and persistence have been depicted so astonishingly."